DOJ Report Drops

amadeus · December 9, 2019, 11:03pm

I want to know why Trump is a Russian patsy.

Apocalypto · December 9, 2019, 11:04pm

Speaking of the Russian patsy…

Plasmaball · December 9, 2019, 11:06pm

I cant wait for your response…its gonna be so much fun

acsirip · December 9, 2019, 11:08pm

Cant wait for Hannitys take on this.

NebraskaFootball · December 9, 2019, 11:12pm

No amount of parsing can escape the jaws of reality on this one.

party-free · December 9, 2019, 11:14pm

There’s always another conspiracy tentacle.

wonderingrover · December 9, 2019, 11:15pm

Now I’ve got to rush home so I can witness the epic frog march of James Comey as he is arrested and taken to jail. Guess I’m going to have to watch Fox News - CNN will probably just try to cover up the arrest…

JayJay · December 9, 2019, 11:18pm

They’re parroting what they think Durham has said about the report.

bootz · December 9, 2019, 11:04pm

After years of waiting, months of expectations, chomping at the bit. saying just wait. Another big nothing burger.

Why bother with investigations, special counsel, DOJ or FBI. They all skate.

Apocalypto · December 9, 2019, 11:09pm

You can thank fat donald for leading you on.

TommyLucchese · December 9, 2019, 11:16pm

That’s on you for believing it.

SeaManatee · December 9, 2019, 11:17pm

Treason?

NebraskaFootball · December 9, 2019, 11:21pm

All of the reading and analysis I’ve done on this issue led me to believe the conclusions offered today were pretty well accurate, and even more than that, very much expected.

Anyone from either side of this issue that expected something other than this fairly predictable outcome may need to re-evaluate the source of their information.

People have biases. There are layers and layers of check and balances in place in DOJ and FBI process that prevent bias from impacting outcomes of investigations.

Due to an unprecedented situation, it is evident some processes and procedures need to be updated and modified to help account for something extraordinary that was not previously accounted for.

Minor omissions, missteps, and errors did occur. But they were negligible in the grand scheme of the overall process and outcome.

This was all very predictable and expected.

NebraskaFootball · December 9, 2019, 11:22pm

Indeed. Which his statement was interesting because it added nothing other than an opening for more conspiracy theorizing. I wonder what his intent was there? By most all accounts he has a stellar reputation. Is the rot in DOJ under Barr so pervasive it is impacting others now?

Munimula1 · December 9, 2019, 11:25pm

False.

Plasmaball · December 9, 2019, 11:28pm

He already said it was a win for trump.

hindsight · December 9, 2019, 11:34pm

Womp womp.

Jezcoe · December 9, 2019, 11:38pm

Tim:

WuWei:

PizzaReverend:

While Horowitz found no evidence of political bias or improper motivation for the FISA applications for Page, he documented what he described as serious errors and omissions that “made it appear that the information supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case.”

Huh. More than I thought there would be. And those “serious errors and omissions” were coincidental.

The Steele dossier played a central and essential role in the FBI’s FISA order. The FISA application contained significant inaccuracies as well as omissions in each of the four applications. Further, agents downplayed facts that cut against probable cause, and that Crossfire Hurricane progressed as information gathered tended to undermine or weaken the assertions supporting probable cause.

Executive Summary, page vi

We determined that the Crossfire Hurricane team’s receipt of Steele’s election reporting on September 19, 2016 played a central and essential role in the FBI’s and Department’s decision to seek the FISA order. As noted above, when the team first sought to pursue a FISA order for Page in August 2016, a decision was made by OGC, 01, or both that more information was needed to support a probable cause finding that Page was an agent of a foreign power. As a result, FBI OGC ceased discussions with 01 about a Page FISA order at that time.

Page 413

Nevertheless, we found that members of the Crossfire Hurricane team failed to meet the basic obligation to ensure that the Carter Page FISA applications were “scrupulously accurate.” We identified significant inaccuracies and omissions in each of the four applications-7 in the first FISA application and a total of 17 by the final renewal application. For example, the Crossfire Hurricane team obtained information from Steele’s Primary Sub-source in January 2017 that raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele reporting that was used in the Carter Page FISA applications. But members of the Crossfire Hurricane team failed to share the information with the Department, and it was therefore omitted from the three renewal applications. All of the applications also omitted information the FBI had obtained from another U.S. government agency detailing its prior relationship with Page, including that Page had been approved as an operational contact for the other agency from 2008 to 2013, and that Page had provided information to the other agency concerning his prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers, one of which overlapped with facts asserted in the FISA application.
As a result of the 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions we identified, relevant information was not shared with, and consequently not considered by, important Department decision makers and the court, and the FISA applications made it appear as though the evidence supporting probable cause was stronger than was actually the case. We also found basic, fundamental, and serious errors during the completion of the FBl’s factual accuracy reviews, known as the Woods Procedures, which are designed to ensure that FISA applications contain a full and accurate presentation of the facts

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Further, Page 413

We determined that the inaccuracies and omissions we identified in the applications resulted from case agents providing wrong or incomplete information to Department attorneys and failing to identify important issues for discussion. Moreover, we concluded that case agents and SSAs did not give appropriate attention to facts that cut against probable cause, and that as the investigation progressed and more information tended to undermine or weaken the assertions in the FISA applications, the agents and SSAs did not reassess the information supporting probable cause.

Yeah. And then it goes on to say that there wasn’t any evidence of intentional misconduct.

The Problems with the FISA application was spelled out clearly at the end.

A quick look shows that the majority of the errors were minor.

That doesn’t excuse it, but it is hardly a bombshell.

mwevans1234 · December 9, 2019, 11:45pm

Indeed! I spend half my life there so I see Free Meal Franco’s statue once a week; 3 trips ago he was on my flight home so I got to walk next to Franco as we passed the Franco statue. I imagine walking by a statue of yourself is a fairly massive ego boost.

It’s an odd airport - the open martini bar right at the center of the 4 wings plays 80s hair metal at 6am, night time flights get dropped off as far as possible from the exit regardless of traffic, and there’s always a local distillery doing tastings at really odd hours…

Apocalypto · December 9, 2019, 11:48pm

Still trying to figure out why Ivanka has never disclosed the fact that she was buds with Christopher Steele.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-was-personal-friends-with-former-british-spy-christopher-steele-according-to-person-familiar-with-the-situation/2019/12/09/be0773c4-1ac4-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html